Real It In

In this episode Dan asks whether Homo Sapiens could in fact be better understood as Homo Oneiros, or The Dreaming People? Dreams fill our art and entertainment, our museums, the shows we watch, and our search for truth in science and psychology. We sleep a third of our lifetime, and entertain visionary ideas and imaginatory explorations for much of the remaining two. What if dreaming is the biggest deal of all?

Bion’s theory of dreaming by James Grotstein - https://icpla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Grotstein-J.S.-Chapter-25-what-does-it-mean-to-dream.pdf

Frank Wilczek on complementarity in Science - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-expanding-power-of-complementarity/

Crick, F., Mitchison, G. The function of dream sleep. Nature 304, 111–114 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/304111a0

Joe presents an anti-imperialist analysis of the War in Afghanistan, the US retreat planned by Donald Trump and carried out by Joe Biden, and the subsequent national discourse. Dan and Martin provide further insight into the psychology of vengeance, nationalism, and fear.

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"War Is A Racket" by Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

Martin tells a horrifying story, of how a pitch perfect Swedish summer night, within two minutes turned upside down. How one footbridge in Stockholm became a mini-war-zone. The group addresses the trauma of "The Real" from a metaphysical and existential perspective. How should one approach the fact that sometimes shit happens to us, the world we inhabit changes, and perhaps we do, as well?

Jacques Lacan and the three orders

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“Your body keeps the score” by Bassel Van Der Kolk

Dan tells the inside story of boxer Wladimir Klitschko’s rise, professional demise and transformation/rebirth after which he came to dominate heavyweight boxing for the next decade. The group reflects around what it takes to be able to navigate and survive one’s trauma, and start fresh.

Wladimir Klitschko vs Samuel Peter (2005)

Wilfred Bion’s thoughts about Alpha Function

Keats' concept of negative capability

In this episode, Martin, Dan and Joe share a tale involving a psychoanalyst-war-veteran reciting Milton’s Paradise lost at a glamorous garden party, as remembered by a psychoanalytic mystic of the following generation. This led to Dan’s writing his book and from there meeting Martin. It is a collective musing on the power of making bids for connection to one another, paying it forward where it matters and, on how a little can go a long way in life. If you can be you, then maybe I can be me?

“Faith” by Michael Eigen

“Freud’s lost chord” by Dan Sapen

“The Inner Light” Star Trek: The Next Generation